November 28, 2022
Africa: Digital Human Rights Need to Be Enshrined in Law
The 17th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), to be hosted by the Government of Ethiopia with the support of UN ECA and UN DESA, will take place from 28 November to 2 December 2022 in… Read more »
November 25, 2022
Zimbabwe: Cattle Turn Into New Currency Amid Inflation in Zimbabwe
In 2007 as inflation walloped the Zimbabwean currency, rendering it valueless, then 54-year-old Langton Musaigwa of Mataruse village west of Zimbabwe in Mberengwa district switched… Read more »
Africa: Push Forward - Act Now to End Violence Against Women and Girls
Five years ago, the global #MeToo movement brought new urgency and visibility to the extent of violence against women and girls. Millions of survivors came forward to share their… Read more »
Africa: Countries Hiding Responses Sent to UN Experts Over Allegations of Human Rights Abuses
Human rights defenders are alarmed at what appears to be a new process permitting countries to keep confidential their responses to UN experts about allegations of human rights… Read more »
Africa: Black 'Fraud-Days' and the Shocking Cost of Staying Fashionable
Please take a quick look at this short report before rushing to shop on a Black Friday, Christmas sales and all those long chains of big discounts and wholesales, most of them are… Read more »
November 24, 2022
Africa: Was COP27 a Success or a Failure?
COP 27 was both better and worse than expected, say Prof. Felix Dodds and Chris Spence Read more »
November 23, 2022
Uganda: Women Tackle Domestic Violence With Green Solutions
Constance Okollet Achom, a Ugandan woman from Tororo, a rural village located in Eastern Uganda, has helped several dozens of her peers affected by domestic violence to address the… Read more »
November 22, 2022
Africa: Pan-African Approach Needed to Tackle Food Insecurity Arising From Conflict and Climate Shocks
Upheaval on the global stage, the war in Ukraine, conflict in the Horn of Africa, severe climatic shocks, high international inflation, increasing global commodity prices, high… Read more »
Africa: Landmark Win On Loss and Damage Fund at COP27 #AfricaClimateHope
COP 27 delivered on what was the 'litmus test' for its success - consensus on the establishment of a fund on loss and damage. What seemed impossible was made possible, largely due… Read more »
Africa: Open Veins of Africa Bleeding Heavily
The ongoing plunder of Africa's natural resources drained by capital flight is holding it back yet again. More African nations face protracted recessions amid mounting debt… Read more »
November 21, 2022
Africa: A Looming Debt Crisis Is Threatening Global Health Security. It Is Time to Drop the Debt
In this moment of profound challenge in international relations, it was understandable that the conclusion of the G20 meeting left leaders feeling relieved that the meeting took… Read more »
Africa: U.S. to Fight Sexual Abuse in International Organizations
The United States, which recently laid down a set of guidelines to monitor sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) by US citizens in international organizations, including the United… Read more »
Africa: Crimes Against Children
An indisputable truth is that no child has ever chosen where to be born, which colour of skin to have, which ethnic community to belong to, what religion to practice and language… Read more »
November 20, 2022
Africa: Loss and Damage Fund Saves COP27 From the Abyss #AfricaClimateHope
They were on the brink of shipwreck and did not leave happy, but did feel satisfied that they got the best they could. The countries of the global South achieved something decisive… Read more »
Africa: COP27 - Historic Loss and Damage Fund Takes COP27 to the Edge #AfricaClimateHope
After a tense impasse and many hours of negotiations, almost 200 countries struck a deal to set up a loss and damage fund to assist nations worst hit by climate change - a demand… Read more »
November 17, 2022
Africa: COP27 - Africa's Agri-Food Systems Losses Ignored in Global Climate Negotiations
At a time when sustainable farming approaches such as agroecology have been removed from the text at ongoing global climate negotiation (COP27) taking place in Sharm El Sheikh,… Read more »
November 16, 2022
Africa: COP27 - Climate Change Exacerbates Vicious Loop of Human Rights Inequity
Climate change is worsening injustice globally, and the poor and vulnerable communities are the most affected. It is time the world acted on fulfilling human rights and building a… Read more »
Africa: Launch of EBRD Climate Adaptation Action Plan At COP27
As it moves to increase its climate adaptation finance, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has launched the EBRD Climate Adaptation Action Plan (CAAP) at… Read more »
Africa: COP27 - Show Me the Money - Supported By Policy
Climate change is an existential threat to humans and our ability to thrive on a healthy planet. But when it comes to rising temperatures, the inability of humankind to slow… Read more »
November 15, 2022
Africa: Ending Gender-Based Violence in a World of 8 Billion
Whether to have children or not is one of the most life-altering decisions a person can make. Read more »
Africa: Leaders Told to Put 'Kids First' At COP27
Lea is a three-year-old from Mexico who loves ladybirds. Siddhiksha, a six-year-old from India, has a passion for trees and wild animals. Rachelle is a 12-year-old Tanzanian who is… Read more »
Africa: Three Truths to Address Sexual Exploitation, Abuse & Harassment in the UN
The U.S. Government has recently published 'Engagement Principles' on Protection from Sexual Exploitation Abuse & Sexual Harassment within International Organizations', and… Read more »
Africa: COP27 Fiddling As World Warms
The latest annual climate conference has begun in the face of a worsening climate crisis and further retreats by rich nations following the energy crisis induced by NATO sanctions… Read more »
November 11, 2022
Africa: Market Lords, Much More Than a War, Behind World's Food Crisis
While grain exports continue to regularly flow to world's markets since the July 2022 Turkey-brokered agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resume cereals and fertilisers… Read more »
Nigeria: Academics' Strike Puts Spotlight On Brain Drain
For eight months, the halls of Nigeria's universities and colleges remained silent - the result of a lecturers' strike brought upon by a wage and conditions of service dispute. Read more »